full circle

for Dreaming in Gujurati, the poem that moved me off the page and onto the stage.

It's just come out in Gujurati translation in the latest issue of Opinion, the UK's leading journal on Gujurati diasporic literature. Translated by Bhadra Vadgama, president of the Gujarati Literary Academy. We discovered, after several months of correspondence, that Bhadra-bhen knew my father growing up in Zanzibar, and ran in and out of my grandmother's kitchen as a child.

The irony is that I can't read Gujarati. Which doesn't abate my pleasure in any way. I suspect it will give my parents a high like no other when I ask them to read the Gujarati version of the poem back to me.